Improvement in harvesters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. N. YOST, OF CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO CORRY MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 90,621, (lfli'Gll M215' 25. 1369- .1'0 whom it may concern:

I, GEORGE W. N. Yosl, of Corry, Erie county, Pennsylvania, have invented a Climax Finger- BarLever-an improvement of' my climax-lever arrangement for grass and grain cutting maA chines.

The following description and accompanying drawings will illustrate the invention, description and drawings having like specifying characters, of which drawin gs- Figure l is a top view of my climax-body, climax tloatin g bar, climax-lever arrangement, and the present invention combined. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the nger-bar, and Fig. et is a front view of the present invention.

A and A are my climax-body. B and B' are the traveling wheels that carry the machine. G and G' are the main axles. S is my climax iioating bar. X, fw, y, z, and are my climax-lever arrangement; and the other specifying characters will be explained hereinafter.

The nature of the invention is in providing ameans of raising the outer end ofthe iin gerbar higher than it would be raised simply by raising the iioatin g bar to which it is attached, and to do this by only one operation ot' the lever arrangement.

Make a climax body or casing or main frame, A and A', evenly balanced on the main aXles G and G', as described in my patent therefor, or in any desired way, and make a climax floating bar and climax-lever arrangement as described in my patents thereforthat is to say, make any desired body or casing or main frame, A and A', to hold the gearing. Put the main axles G and G' in and through the middle of the body or frame A and A', so that the body or frame will be evenly balanced thereon. Surround the traveling wheel B' with the floating bar S, with the bar end 7c rigidly attached to the middle of the fore end of the body or 'rameA and A', and with the bar end l rigidly attached to the middle of the hind end of the body or frame A and A'. Extend the main axle G' out from the traveling wheel B and to the perpendicular plane of the inner edge of that partei' the floating bar S between the points m and a, or to the perpendicular plane of the inner end ot' the strap e, rigidly attached to the floating bar S midway between the points m and n. Make a lever-bar, X, and pivot the inner or lower end thereof, w, to the outer end of the main axle G. From the pivot end w of the lever-bar X extend, at an angle of less than ninety degrees, a short arm, y, and connect the end of the short arm y of the lever-bar X to the strap 2,011 to the floating bar S, midway between the points m and n, by a ch ai n or connection, lo the corner or point m of the ioatin g bar S rigidly attach a pivotblock, mi, ten inches long, three inches wide, and one inch th ick, with a pivot-hole swell and rib on it three inches high, and provided with a pivo t-hole one and one-halt` inch in diameter, all more or less. Pivot a nger-bar, U, ot' any approved form and size, to the corner of pivotblock m and m1 of the floating bar S by the pivot-pin m2, rigidly attached to the finger-bar U, and made a solid part of it. Make a leverbar, X', twenty inches long, one inch wide, and one-half inch thick, all more or less. Four inches (more or less) from one end pivot the lever-bar X to the pivot-block m1 ofthe floating bar S, near to, buta little distance in toward, the body A and A' from the pivot-hole of the finger-bar pivot m2, so that the fore end, k', ot' the lever-bar X', bent down so as to reach and touch and rest on the inner end of the fingerbar U, extended four inches (more or less) in toward the body A and A' from the pivot-pin m", and that the hind end of the lever-bar X' will reach back to the perpendicular plane or' the main axle G. Attach the inner or hind end of the lever-bar X to the inside of the end of the arm y of the lever X by the chain or connection db'. Thus the invention is made.

Throwing t-he handle of the lever X over and behind the traveling-wheel B' and onto the loatin g bar S between the points at and Z will throw the arm y over and behind the main axle G', and will pull up with it the hind end of the lever-bar X' by the chain or connection rfc; and raising the hind end of the lever-bar X will push down the fore end, k', ofthe same bar, and will push down with it the inner end of the finger bar U, which is under it; and pushing dow 11 lhe inner end of the finger-bar U,

hung on the pivot m2, Will throw up the outer end thereof, and thus, by one and the same The arrangement of a lever-bar, X', with a lever, X, oating bar S, and singer-bar U, operating as described, for grass and grain cutting machines.

Gr. W. N. YOST.

Witnesses D. W. ARoHBoLD, W. S. NUTTING. 

